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From: spexet@ux.acs.umn.edu (D. Robert Spexet II)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 pre-release a memory hog?
Keywords: OS/2 2.0 paging performance
Message-ID: <4089@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Date: 9 Jun 91 21:34:41 GMT
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In article <13575@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU> dgoldfar@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (David Goldfarb) writes:
>Is it just my configuration, or is the current OS/2 2.0 pre-release
>(version 6.123) an incredible memory hog?  I'm running with 6meg of
>ram and have a 3.5meg swapper.dat right after I boot, which grows to
>about 7meg witin a few hours.  running the same programs on the same
>macine under 1.2, I started with 640k and would typically reach about
>3meg after a few hours.  Presumably, this is just a matter of 2.0 not
>being properly tuned yet, but I'd be thrilled to hear that no one else
>is having this problem, and I'm just doing something grossly wrong in
>my CONFIG.SYS.

I'm merely speculating, but I would think that there is a lot of debugging
code in the current release.

I would hope that the excess code would be removed by the time the final
version is released to the public.

Hope this helps,


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